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Thfl’trange things happen in Cali
al flnia.
itioflCalifornia, ever ready to try
itesflything new, especially if It
yeaflll speed up things, has turn
■cuifl all its check writing over to
Bmputers. The other day the
, irflmputer, used in the Los Ange
i tdH; County auditor’s office, des
n afljyed the belief “A computer
boofln never go wrong” by going
’deiflywire in issuing a child-sup
rinjßrt check. The .bumbling bat
looflry-brain turned a $15.00 check
ncfl.o one for $19,065 and mailed
liteßto a woman.
■ Now the auditor’s office is
toflaming the woman and not the
da.Bmputer for the big error. She
xasßould have known better is the
tedßtitude taken by the officials.
oseßThey want the check back,
■ But here’s the trouble.
theßl’he woman has cashed the
toflieck, bought a new automobile
ofßid a lot of clothes and taken
; heßf for Mexico for a vacation
iroßith her second husband. She
heßd leave $4,065 deposited to her
■lecking account in a Los Ange-
bank.
I Who discovered the sl9-thou-
Bmd-plus error?
■ A human auditor, not the
Bamputer.
■fl Here’s something hard to be
. ,'fleve — even about California.
I There are more automobiles
fl that state than there are peo-
Iflle in any state in the Union,
■flxcept three — California, New
Iflork and Pennsylvania. The
■umber of automobiles register
fl fld. in California last year is 10.3-
Blillion.
Other states with heavy regis
flations are: New York 6.2-Mil
flon; Texas 5.2-Million, and
fl* nnsylvania and Ohio tied
fl'ith 5.2-Million. California has
Blmost as many automobiles as
fl’ennsylvania and Ohio combin
fld.
'fl The state with the smallest
■.umber of automobiles is Alas-
B.a, which last year registered
Bust 109-Thousand.
a Total registration of automo
fliles, passenger, trucks, and
Brailers in Spalding County for
■his year has been 19,041.
I Here in Georgia there are 2,-
f 1.17,459 passenger automobiles
■egistered and 2,253,544 drivers
flicenses.
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.1 Speaking of automobiles:
M All automobiles should be kept
perfect repair at all times.
■But if there is any type passen
■flger carrying vehicle that can
■never be too safe it is our school
fljuses.
M A newspaper that enjoys na
flional circulation, devotes three
■columns to school bus accidents
'Band mentions one in Nebraska
flwhere four youngsters were kill
fled and nine others seriously in
flured when a freight train round
fling a curve at 48 m.p.h. struck
■the rear end of the bus which
■had almost made a safe cross-
Hing.
Two days later, at Jackson-
Fla., a loaded dump truck
■collided with a school bus car
fl rying 34 children, and three
■ days later a school bus in Okla
flhoma City, Okla., was overturn
fl ed when it collided with another
Bear. Fortunately none of the
fl children were injured.
These three accidents, within
■ five days of each other, have
■ caused the National Transpor
fltation Safety Board to increase
-fl its activities to prevent school
■ bus accidents.
; 4 The Board estimated that some
fl 17-Million boys and girls ride sc
fl hool buses, five days in the
■ week, and although the ratio of
■ accidents is not high, still it is
I too high to be overlooked.
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Here in our school system
I there are 36 school buses in ope
fl ration. The system maintains a
I full time garage to keep the bus
fl es in good condition, and all
I drivers are required to pass a
I rigid state patrol examina
■ tion before being permitted to
I drive a school bus.
The general public can do
I much in making our school
I transportation safe by exercis-
I ing precaution when driving.
I Never drive too closely behind a
j bus; never pass a bus when it
j stops to take on or put off pu
j pils; and always drive cautious
fl ly by schools or school cross-
I Ings.
4 Drive sensibly and safely. If
I one does not one may injure or
I even kill a child; and even if
I there is no accident the state re
fl quires that a case must be
I made against anyone who breaks
I any of the school safe driving
I laws.
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Superintendent’s Gift
Griffin - Spalding School Superintendent D. B. Christie was presented a paper*
weight with a Distributive Education Club emblem on it for his desk this morning
at an installation breakfast. He was presented the gift by Cameron Smoak, newly
installed president of the Griffin High DE Club. A picture of the officers is on
page 24.
Town Taken With
‘Touching’ Story
ELGIN, Hl. (UPl)—The story
was touching—a recitation of
calamity and crisis crowding in
on a man who wanted only to
die at home.
Elgin, a quiet little city about
40 miles west of Chicago, was
friendly and helpful, much to
the chagrin of residents who
took up a collection for the
man, his wife, two young
daughters and a “friendly dog.”
The city discovered, almost
too late, it had been conned,
taken in by the family. It was
only about $25, but, doggine it,
it was the principle of the thing.
Leo Moore, police chief in
nearby Algonquin, was the first
to hear the story, recited with
drama by a man who said he
was a resident of North Miami
Beach, Fla.
Moore said the man told him
he was working as a heavy
machine operator in Anchorage,
Alaska, when he was stricken
INSIDE
Georgia News. Page 2.
Hospital. Page 3.
About Town. Page 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
Billy Graham. Page 4.
Television. Page 4.
Ray Cromley. Page 5.
Bruce Biossat. Page 5.
Sports. Page 6.
Society. Page 8.
Castro Man Slain. Page 9.
Air Crash Probe. Page 9.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 10.
Lighter Side. Page 10.
Betty Canary. Page 12.
Romance Denied. Page 12,
Auto Talks. Page 18.'
Cobb Case. Page 20.
DeGaulle Riots. Page 20,
Want Ads. Page 22.
Comics. Page 23.
Vietnam War. Page 24.
Modern Robinson Crusoe
And Shapely Girl Frida
Head For Tiny Island
LOS ANGELES (UPD—Bruce
Johnson and Shari Quam—a
modern Robinson Crusoe and a
shapely Friday—plan'to maroon
themselves on a tiny coral
island in the south Pacific to
“revert back to nature.”
Johnson, in his 40s, and Miss
Quam, 22, plan to fly to
American Samoa and then
proceed by boat to a deserted
island about 80 miles from Pago
Pago.
‘‘We’re trying to prove that
man can survive if tossed into a
situation like this,” Johnson
said. “We want to revert back
to nature.”
DAILY W" NEWS
Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, October 11, 1967 Vol. 95 No. 240
by terminal cancer of the spine.
He said he had loaded his
family in their battered old car
and headed home “to die.”
The family had been menaced
by floods, forest fires and car
breakdowns.
“The money is just about
gone. The gas tank is empty;
the girls (aged 2 and 13) are
hungry,” the man told Moore.
The man’s wife did not speak,
communicating with hand sig
nals and “gurgling sounds,”
Moore said. The police chief
was told she had lost her voice
after a throat cancer operation.
Moore was touched. He
arranged for two free tanks of
gasoline, a bag of groceries,
some dog food for the pet, and
a free meal at a restaurant.
The man ate in the car because
he said he was “too weak to go
inside.”
It didn’t seem enough to
Moore, so he appealed to the
Elgin newspaper and radio
Williamson Road
Closed For Month
Williamson road will be clos- i
ed for a month or more for the
construction of an overpass
bridge for the Griffin-Barnesville i
By-Pass.
Police Chief Leo Blackwell
said Williamson road would be
half barricaded at Everee road
and Carver road to permit resi
dential traffic.
He advised people living in the
Williamson area to turn north on
Carver road and enter town on
Georgia 16 or turn south on
Carver and use Kalamazoo dr
ive and Everee to enter town.
The bridge will be constructed
near the Spalding County Work '
Camp. Preliminary work for the
bridge has been under way for i
The couple will take no food,
medicine, weapons or communi
cation equipment with them in
their goal to make a clean
break with civilization. They
plan to land on the deserted
beach provided only with
camera, film and sound equip
ment and one bathing suit each.
Johnson said the only reason
for the bathing suits was
because of the camera.
Johnson, a physical director
at a local health club, said as a
boy he used to play Robinson
Crusoe by eating crackers in his
backyard behind a blanket hung
over a clothesline.
GRIFFIN
station. They in turn appealed
to the citizens of Elgin for
donations.
The family rattled off, leaving
a North Miami address where
donations could be sent.
To Capt. Arthur Homer of the
Elgin Salvation Army fell the
task of disillusioning the Good
Samaritans. He recognized a
newspaper picture of the
family.
In 1963, while he was serving
in North Platte, Neb., there had
been another family who had
told a tale of woe and got SIOO
in cash, gasoline ana dog food,
which they returned complain
ing the dog ate only steak.
Homer notified everyone con
cerned that the family which
was so “needy” in Nebraska
four years ago, was the same
family befriended by the good
people of Elgin.
The newspaper and radio
station were returning dona
tions.
several weeks.
Chief Blackwell said the road
would be closed for a least a
month and possibly longer.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Fair and continued
cool tonight with a chance of
some scattered frost.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 70, minimum today
42, maximum Tuesday 72, mini
mum Tuesday. 48. Sunrise Th
ursday 7:41 a.m., sunset Thurs
day 7:12 p.m.
Miss Quam, brown - eyed,
brown-haired and single, is a
former nurse.
“The first week is actually
going to be the ordeal,” Johnson
said. “We’ll have to make tools
right away—stone axes and
stone knives.” Food will consist
of coconut milk, rain water, and
fruit, fish and birds.
When the basic necessities of
life are taken care of, the
couple will attempt to build a
raft from driftwood and fallen
trees on which they hope to ride
back to Pago Pago.
“City life is the ultimate in
boredom,” Johnson said.
Smith Case Off
Until February
Jurors Are
Dismissed
For This Term
Judge John H. McGehee to
day postponed the murder
trial of Ronald Lee Smith, 23,
until the February term of Sp
alding Superior Court.
The Griffin Judicial Circuit
Court Judge told the Griffin
Daily News that he could see
no possible way to try the case
anytime before the next sched
uled term of court.
Judge McGehee hoped to try
the murder case this week. How
ever, Reuben. T. Garland, Sm
ith’s attorney, was unable to
appear in court here because
of a previous commitment to
defend a client in a DeKalb
County court.
The Smith case was tempora
rily postponed. Court officials
still hoped to try it next week.
Witnesses were dismissed
with instructions that they would
be notified when the case was
reset.
Judge McGehee today dis
missed all jurors for this term
of court.
He later told the Griffin Daily
News that there was no way
possible to try the Smith any
time before the second week in
Decemoer.
‘‘l simply cannot keep these
men (jurors) from their places
of businesses during that time,”
the Judge said. ‘‘They would
lynch me,” he joked.
Judge McGehee said he would
issue a special order for the
Smith case to be the first one
called during the criminal ses
sion of the February term of
Spalding Superior Court.
Sinitn and his wife were in
dicted in the pistol death of
Charles Vaughn, Griffin college
student.
Shriners
Plan Parade
Here Saturday
A parade will be held Satur
day as a part of Griffin Shrine
Day.
The parade will begin at 11:30
a.m. at the East Solomon shop
ping center and go through the
downtown area to the high sc
hool parking lot.
Shriners from Atlanta, near
by cities and throughout Geor
gia will participate. The parade
will include clowns, trick cars,
motorcycles, the famous Yaarab
Temple bands and many local
units.
NIGER FLOODING
BAMAKO, Mali (UPl)—Re
cord flooding of the Niger River
left more than 3,000 Malians
homeless Monday night and the
river was reported still rising in
some areas.
The river was 18 feet above
normal in the capital here and
25 feet above the usual level at
Koulikoro, 39 miles downriver.
Heavy rain that caused the
flooding continued in the Niger
headwaters.
STARTS EARLY
PARIS (UPl)—Maurice Che
valier, who was 79 last month,
began celebrating his 80th
birthday Monday.
Air France provided the
veteran entertainer with a
birthday cake as he left for
Chicago on the first leg of a
round the world singing and
dancing tour.
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For PEOPLE
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cate, act as the public's
proxies" wherever public
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Guess Who?
GUESS WHO ducked under the table in a New York
restaurant to avoid the cameramen ? It’s veteran enter
tainer Marlene Dietrich, still going strong, shortly
after completing the first night of her one-woman
Broadway show.
Nov. 10 Deadline Stands
Building Chairman
Hopeful On Funds
The building committee chair
man for the Griffin-Spalding Bo
ard of Education was hopeful to
day that the system would be
able to meet requirements in or
der to get more than a million
dollars for buildings from the
state.
Gordon Futral, building chair
man, said he was hopeful after
getting a brief report from sc
hool officials who went to Atlan
ta Tuesday. They sought ans
wers to some questions the bo
ard had about the project.
Mr. Futral hopes to get the
building committee together this
week for a full report on the trip
to Atlanta.
Supt. D. B. Christie, Herman
Nelson of the administrative st
aff, Architect Gerald Bilbro and
Atty. Jim Owen represented the
school board on the inquiry trip.
Mr. Nelson said a Nov. 10 dead
line stands and will have to be
met if the school system here is
to receive the $1,013,100 for buil
dings. He said state school of
ficials in Atlanta also told them
of some building alternatives
that might be used.
Mr. Christie was attending a
special educational meeting at
Jackson Lake today and Thurs
day and could not be contacted
for comment.
The system here has been ap
proved for the $1,013,100 for con
solidations if it can meet state
requirements.
One of the things the school
board wanted to know was 11
the Nov. 10 deadline was final.
State officials said Tuesday that
it was.
If the Griffin-Spalding System
is not able to meet requirements,
the money will go to some oth
er system that is ready. The
state is ready to sell bonds and
cannot extend the Nov. 10 dead
line, state officials said.
Mr. Futral in the board meet
ing Monday night said if the
Griffin-Spalding System does not
get the consolidation building
money, it is likely that a bond
issue will be needed here with
in the next five years for sc
hools.
He has made this public state
ment several times before in dis
cussing building needs.
Meanwhile, a buiding site se
lection committee hoped to get
together this week so it can b
ready to make a recommenda
tion to the full board.
The committee made up of
Russell Smith, chairman; Tay
lor Manley and W. G. Blakeney,
is to recommend two sites for
two new elementary schools.
They would be built with pert
of the state money.
The system must have clear
title to the two sites in order to
qualify for the state money.
The system qualified for the
building money under a consoli
dation proposal. The system pl
ans to make separate high sc
hools for boys and girls and to
create a vocational school.
Talent Night
Set At Fair
Amateur talent night will be
held tonight at 8 o’clock at the
Lt Gov. Smith
Wins Fight On
Appointments
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPD —Lt. Gov.
George T. Smith was elected
chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Organization today,
winning a behind-the-scenes
power play that threatened to
take away his authority to ap
point legislative committee
chairmen.
Smith won the chairmanship
of the 16-member committee,
following a closed-door meeting
with some of his opponents.
There was no opposition when
the committee met publicly for
the nomination.
Senate president pro-tem Jul
ian Webb, who nominated
Smith, was elected vice-chair
man. The entire session took
less than a minute.
The powerful committee,
which had threatened to remove
Smith’s chief political power,
was formed to bring about
greater “legislative indepen
dence.’’
When Smith won election ov
er former Lt. Gov. Peter Zack
Geer last fall, a power struggle
developed and anti-Smith sena
tors formed a coalition to strip
away his most important politic
al powers — including the ap
opintment of Senate committee
chairman.
An unprecedented unofficial
meeting of the full Senate fol
lowed in December, a month
before the session began, and
Smith won a bare victory bj
gaining a compromise agree
ment to let the matter ride un
til after the 1967 session. The
opposing forces pledged to sup
port him until the issue could
be permanently resolved.
Maddox Hears
Stuckey Eyes
Governorship
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov. Les
ter Maddox said today he had
“heard” Rep. William S. (Bill)
Stuckey, D-Ga., would run for
governor in 1972 and indicated
the young congressman might
be just the manto succeed him.
Although Maddox did not en
dorse Stuckey, he said the south
Georgia Democrat would “give
them (other candidates) a lot of
trouble.” The governor said oth
er rumored candidates were
State Sen. Jimmy Carter of
Sumter County, former Gov.
Carl Sanders and Comptroller
Gen. Jimmy Bentley.
“He (Stuckey) has a lot of
money, but doesn’t act like it,
and he knows how to sell him
self,” Maddox said, noting that
the congressman was the only
potential conservative candidate
not associated with the Capitol
“clique.”
The so-called “clique” is a
loosely-knit group of Capitol of
fice holders closely associated
with Sen. Herman Tahnadge,
D-Ga.
On the national level, Maddox
predicted it would take a “mir
acle” to beat California Gov.
Ronald Reagan for the presi
dency, although he said “some
one like George Wallace” might
do it.
TOO LATE
NORWICH, England (UPI)—
A postcard delivered to a house
here was mailed on Aug, 24,
1910.
Kiwanis Spalding County Fair.
Prizes will be presented to the
best acts in three age groups.
The age groups are grammar
school, junior high and senior
high and adults.
Twenty one various acts will
be presented. They will include
music groups, dance groups, a
magician, a ventriloquist, and
others.
Grady McCalmon is serving
as chairman of the talent night
contest. Fred Watkins, local
radio announcer, will be mas
ter of ceremonies.
Griffinite
Among Three
Escapees Caught
SUWANEE, Ga. (UPD—Three
youths who fled from the Geor
gia Industrial Institute at Alto
Sunday were arrested late Tues
day by Suwanee police.
Authorities identified the
youths, who stole a car after
escaping the institute, as Ron
ald Coleman Puckett, 17, of
Stockbridge; Larry Roe, 18, of
Griffin, and David Leon Black,
18, College Park.
Country Parson
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“I wonder why we’d rather
half-heartedly try something
big than to earnestly do little
things within our reach.”